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| Date: | 11 25 1954 |
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| Description: | The new Sears store at 1101 East Washington Avenue features the second escalator in the city, as well as an Allstate Insurance counter and various merchand... |
| Date: | 04 24 1955 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Hatfield receives a bag of silver dollars as her award from J. Jesse Hyman Sr., President of the Emporium Company, in recognition of her 13 years s... |
| Date: | 04 06 1959 |
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| Description: | Florists of the South Central Florists' Association will create floral arrangements in the windows of the Wolff, Kubly and Hirsig store. These arrangements... |
| Date: | 05 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Robert Retzlaff (left), manager of the newly opened Ben Franklin variety store at 4204 Monona Drive, posing in the foreground on his store's first day of b... |
| Date: | 12 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Madison shoppers fill stores looking for post-Christmas sale bargains. |
| Date: | 12 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Shoppers fill stores looking for post-Christmas sale bargains and returning or exchanging unwanted gifts. |
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| Description: | View of a central intersection and city block with the State Bank on the corner, and Lee's Department Store (Ben C. Lee & Co.) next door on the right. A si... |
| Date: | 04 09 1970 |
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| Description: | Two women on the left are sitting at tables and talking into telephones. On the right are large show windows, and a bus and passers-by are visible through ... |
| Date: | 05 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, answering a woman's questions at the Borenstein Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. She is sitting on a couc... |
| Date: | 05 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, assisting a customer at Borenstein's Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. A young man, perhaps a sales assist... |
| Date: | 11 01 1954 |
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| Description: | A model, and a North Central Airlines stewardess posing at the top of loading stairs leading up to an airliner for Northwest Airlines. The model is posing ... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Jo Clark, age 3, is sitting on a table in a department store as clerk Frances Sternberger (left) is tying the chin strap of a new Easter hat. Jo's mother, ... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Arthur Dier smiles approval as his fiancee, Evelyn Schaefer, asks his opinion of a bright flowery Easter hat at a Madison store. Ms. Schaefer, in the foreg... |
| Date: | 07 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Five women wearing folded newspaper hats while viewing a large printing press on a tour at Madison Newspapers Inc. The five women from the advertising depa... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A view across Pinckney Street at the corner of Main Street. The two blocks along the Square include storefronts for Stevens, Mangel's, and Richman's. The F... |
| Date: | 11 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Christmas shoppers crowd the Capitol Square on the day after Thanksgiving Day. Women shoppers are seen at the corner of State Street, Carroll Street and W.... |
| Date: | 04 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Three women standing outdoors on a sidewalk viewing a dress on a mannequin in the foreground inside a show window on Capitol Square. They are (L-R): Linda ... |
| Date: | 12 27 1960 |
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| Description: | Post-Christmas shoppers crowd downtown Madison stores as they return or exchange unwanted Christmas gifts. |
| Date: | 02 24 1961 |
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| Description: | Five employees of Sears, Roebuck, and Company who have a stake in the company's profit-sharing plan. Controller, R. L. Roidt holds up a graphic illustratio... |
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